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Subject: [Leica] Re:kodachrome NOW VOLUNTEERS!!! :-) - now paid mercenaries!
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Wed Feb 1 09:50:38 2006
References: <r02010500-1044-D2174BE792A211DA89590011246F5C92@[66.239.170.188]> <029701c626b9$83568ad0$56e74142@D1S9FY41> <000901c626ca$ffbfd890$2ee76c18@ted> <003601c6273a$56a68d60$56e74142@D1S9FY41>

Just noticed a typo in my post. I meant that the Company will engage not a 
heater (chauffer) but a chauffeur to conduct your Maybach 62

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:kodachrome NOW VOLUNTEERS!!! :-) - now paid 
mercenaries!


> Now waitaminit, mon tres cher ami Ted, we need to do a little negotiating.
>
>> Seth mon ami,
>> In the Netherlands is quite OK, no problem at all, good food and beer! 
>> ;-) Now about the accommodation? The requirements are 3 penthouse suites
>
> OK.
>
>>with running everything, maids, butlers, cooks
>
> NO. Not acceptable. One maid to do all three penthouses on a regular 
> rotating basis; one cook to do meals for the three of you and your 
> respective and respectable spouses, mates and others; sorry, you shall 
> have to breakfast, (lunch on your own) and dine together, though each of 
> you (you three, this does not include your respective and respectable 
> spouses, mates and others) is permitted a butler, Tina has a choice 
> between butler and lady-in-waiting.
>
> Again, as I have priced out operating costs vs. potential income from this 
> Kodak-hating crowd, we can only afford one chauffer and one 
> chauffer-driven Maybach 6.2. HOWEVER, in the graciousness of our hearts, 
> each of you WILL be allowed a company-paid personal car; to this end we 
> have arranged with Cadillac to supply three supercharged 4-cam V-8  STS-V 
> saloon cars. If you decline, you may choose alternative personal 
> transport: a boat on the canals.
>
>> You might consider this as our "work flow time." ;-) Absolutely never on 
>> Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning nor Wednesday morning
>
> Rejected out-of-hand. You will be allowed to say to management:
> "Jamais le dimanche." C'est tout.
>
>> Now considering no mention has been made of, shall we say... 
>> "compensation I'll leave this for the moment to give you a short time to 
>> mull it over, which I'm sure you'll return with an extremely generous 
>> offer of wages, bonuses and stock options.
>
> Wot, are you outta your bl**ding mind? You guys get a vacation in dreamy 
> Nederland, all expenses covered - and lavishly - and you want to be PAID 
> into the bargain? You should consider yourselves very lucky indeed that we 
> don't charge you for the opportunity.
>
> The issue of income taxes I leave to your collective senses of duty and 
> honor (assuming such to exist) and to the resourcefulness of Internal & 
> Inland Revenue.
>
> Further deponent sayeth not.
>
> S.
>
>
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